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| by Mike Bantick | |
| Friday, 16 January 2009 | |
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In total 2008’s December saw an increase of nine percent over the same time in 2007, reaching US$5.29 billion. This brought the final year total video game sales to a whopping US$21.33 billion, eclipsing 2007 by 19 percent. Hardware wise, U.S consumers only spend two percent more in December than the same time the year before, distributing the US$1.88 billion mainly on Nintendo products. In fact over 5 million Nintendo branded consoles went into U.S. homes during the festive month, 3 million DS and 2.1 million Wii consoles are now being played through the winter. Microsoft sold 1.4 million Xbox 360’s and Sony saw the PSP handheld top a million sold with the PlayStation 3 managing 726 thousand units sold. The complete details follow. * Nintendo DS - 3,040,000 * Wii - 2,150,000 * Xbox 360 - 1,440,000 * PSP - 1,020,000 * PlayStation 3 - 726,000 * PlayStation 2 - 410,000 Despite the lower ranked sales positions, and the fact sales of the PS3 were down 100K from December 2007, actual sales of the PlayStation 3 over 2008 was an increase of 40 percent from 2007. Software details on page 2 |
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